Hunger Strike

March 15, 1986

OTTAWA — Sen. Jacques Hebert is camping out in the Senate foyer and is on a hun ger strike. He is trying to force Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government to continue a youth program he founded in 1976 or to offer something better. Mulroney promises proposals later this month, but Hebert, 62, said, ''I don't trust them anymore.'' He stopped eating Monday and is taking only mineral water. Secretary of State Benoit Bouchard said Katimavik, Hebert's $20 million youth program, will not continue beyond June. It pays about 1,700 young people for community work.